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upon its battle fields, and apprehend better the conditions 

 attaching to rival sites. Why should not the councils of 

 our counties, cities, and boroughs, go to the comparatively 

 small expense of reproducing from the Ordnance maps of 

 Great Britain, similar relief maps of their immediate 

 districts ? 



"Ina country so interesting as Palestine to the student 

 of physical geography, it would have been well to have 

 shown on the raised map the sea-level in the gorge of 

 the Jordan, from the point just below the exit of the river 

 from the Baheiret el Huleh (Waters of Merom) to the 

 district south of the Dead Sea ; it would have shown how 

 the aspect of the country would have been changed if it 

 had been possible to have constructed a * Dead Sea Canal ' 

 as a rival to the Suez Canal. It would also have been of 

 interest to have shown the contour lines on such a map for 

 every 1 ,ooo feet of altitude." 



